Crimson Debt

Born to Darkness Series, Book 1

De: Evangeline Anderson

Narrado por: Mackenzie Cartwright

Addison Godwin is a nonglam - one of the one in 10,000 humans who is immune to vampire glamour and mind tricks. Her gift enables her to work as an auditor, enforcing the law that vampires and humans keep their distance from each other except in a purely nonphysical way. The law is necessary because when a vampire tries to have sex with a human, their bloodlust combines with their sexual appetite, and the result looks like roadkill.

Alec Corbin is a four-star master vampire with piercing blue eyes and intentions to get Addison into his bed. He promises he can be gentle, but Addison has seen way too many vamp/human crime scenes to go for that. She has no interest in the six-foot-four hunk of sexy vampire man candy, even if he is supernaturally hot.

But just because she audits (and sometimes executes) vampires for a living doesn't mean she hates them all. Her best friend, Taylor, was turned against her will. Now living as a slave to one of the crueler master vamps in town, she leads a miserable existence, and Addison is helpless to save her within the confines of the law.

Things come to a head when the vampire inquisitor comes to town, and Taylor is given to him as a sex slave. When Addison sees her best friend tortured, beaten, and burned with silver, she knows she has to do something - even if it means teaming up with Corbin and paying the crimson debt.

Contains mature themes.

©2013 Evangeline Anderson (P)2015 Tantor

Enjoyable but not Awesome

Contrary to the rave reviews, this book was not action packed or very exciting. It took a while for the storyline to develop but eventually was a fairly, if not slow, enjoyable book. It was decent enough to continue listening, but not "edge of your seat" excitement. The main characters were likeable and nice people, that's probably what kept me listening.
Most likely won't bother with next book in series.
Waiting for the book to be on sale is a better bet; over priced for quality of story.

Talk about walking a chalk line

I really enjoy Evangeline Anderson’s imagination. Her world of vampires and humans, acknowledgement with legal documentation (like a bungy ride) and auditors is brilliant. Then to add an auditor who has the hots for a vampire 🧛‍♂️ really set the scene for me to shout at Addison shut ur big mouth”, don’t anger the angry beast. An the submissive roomie? Anyhoo, great job as always Mackenzie

How Can She Be So Stupid?

Chapter after chapter, the main character talks to herself about how dangerous these vampires are and then completely disregards any warnings, rules, customs, or common sense. She constantly insults them and can't keep her mouth shut to save her life, quite literally. This would be fine for one dramatic and emotional moment or early on in the story before she knew better, but it happens constantly, cover to cover, over and over again. At some point, I'd hoped her big fat mouth got her killed like it should have 10 times over. The book is generally well written with a decent plot and the relationship is steamy, it's unfortunate it turns a good character into a biligererant bimbo. Great narrating too!

There were some good parts

Over all the story was ok, and some of the sex scenes were well written and compelling. This book was hard to get through because one of the main Character's was Very hard to like. The Heroine was constantly pushing the Hero away to the point of being just plain stupid and I wish she was going to get killed off just to end it. Which was a shame as the book had real potential. I should have listened to some of the other reviews. The little clip audible gives you to listen to hooked me, but when you get more in depth this one just falls short for me. Just not my cup of tea, plus the way women are treated in the book could be disturbing for many women that have gone through abuse.

Good Story

The story line is great! I'm definitely going to read the next book. I just wish the lead female character wasnt so annoying at some points in her book. I feel like stupidity was being portrayed as bravery and it got really annoying at certain points

This series was exhausting.

I enjoyed the storyline however, like another person commented about "Dimwitted Heroines" this is ridiculous! How pig headed and stubborn do you have to be? I found her to be absolutely frustrating. Just do the opposite of what he tells you to do and then be surprised at the consequences. Ugh!!

So good!

Couldn’t put it down! Kept me interested all the way through! Thinking that Evangeline Anderson might be one of my new favorite authors!

Crimson (bws) Corbin/Addison

Seduction scene too drawn out. Addison is strong professional but in sensual scenes with Corbin she sounds like she is an adolescent . Why did Taylor suffer for years without help?

Amazing book, iffy heroine

I had missed feelings about the protagonist in this novel. It's one thing to be strong and another entirely to be prideful and childish, which she was. Her inability to just shut her mouth was unbelievable and the hypocrisy.. it was irritating to say the least. Calling Corbin names and being rude to him for saving her over and over was just frustrating. For someone that supposedly worked with and spent time around vampires, she certainly lacked any understanding or finesse around them while waving around an entirely ineffective weapon and acting like queen s***. Regardless, the sexy scenes and attraction between the two protagonists was excellent. It was well-written and the narration was spot-on.

Wanted More from the Story

Evangeline Anderson is a great writer. Her Kindred series is one of my all time favorites. This is the first book in the Born to Darkness series and there are parts of it with real promise for a great series. However, I have to agree with several of the other reviewers in saying that the heroine, Addison, is incredibly annoying. I am all for strong female leads, but why did she have to be so unrealistically unreasonable? How arrogant do you have to be to believe that you, a human, know more about vampires than a 400 year old vampire that continues to prove he has your best interest in mind? And Corbin, who has the potential to be incredibly sexy, never stood up to her. It was like he was a whipped puppy walking on eggshells trying to keep her happy. Maybe it frustrated me more because he is reminiscent of Sylvan from the Kindred series who was my favorite. But Sylvan's heroine matched him better. I am not giving up hope for the series, I just will cross my fingers for better leads in the next.